Frankly, this is a minor nuisance, but if any of you know how to fix it (or tell me what I'm doing wrong), that would be great!
Anytime I idle a locomotive, boiler pressure will drop drastically. I will run the locomotive, park it somewhere, turn on the blower (usually 2 clicks, though I've experimented with the full range), go do something else, come back to it, and find that my locomotive whose safety valve had been going off every 10 seconds while running had suddenly lost 50psi+ over the course of maybe 10 minutes. I haven't read up on the law of thermodynamics in a while (I studied history), but that just doesn't seem right.
Speaking of the safety valve, building up steam pressure while running seems to be way too easy. So long as there is some water or coal (doesn't seem to matter the amount) in the boiler/firebox, and the train is running, there will be max pressure and the safety valve will go off more than it doesn't. This seems to be true regardless of whether I change the engine spec.
Note: I typically use one of Ben Neal's locos (updated to TS12 by philskene), though I've tested this with others (payware and freeware) and get similar results.
So, am I a guru of building steam while on the run or is that just how the game works? And how do I keep steam pressure at a reasonable rate while idling?
Thanks!
Anytime I idle a locomotive, boiler pressure will drop drastically. I will run the locomotive, park it somewhere, turn on the blower (usually 2 clicks, though I've experimented with the full range), go do something else, come back to it, and find that my locomotive whose safety valve had been going off every 10 seconds while running had suddenly lost 50psi+ over the course of maybe 10 minutes. I haven't read up on the law of thermodynamics in a while (I studied history), but that just doesn't seem right.
Speaking of the safety valve, building up steam pressure while running seems to be way too easy. So long as there is some water or coal (doesn't seem to matter the amount) in the boiler/firebox, and the train is running, there will be max pressure and the safety valve will go off more than it doesn't. This seems to be true regardless of whether I change the engine spec.
Note: I typically use one of Ben Neal's locos (updated to TS12 by philskene), though I've tested this with others (payware and freeware) and get similar results.
So, am I a guru of building steam while on the run or is that just how the game works? And how do I keep steam pressure at a reasonable rate while idling?
Thanks!